This Week in A2

Happy Halloween!  We hope you are having a super fun and safe evening!  Thank you to all who helped make Friday so special for the students!  If you have pictures of the festivities and would like to share them with our class, please email them to nglasgo@pacificasd.org.  

A few reminders:

1. We have fun new math centers in the works that support your child's math curriculum!  We are still in need of many "clear, large 8x11 Steralite Click Boxes" to organize these math centers.  Please See Amazon Wishlist for better description of boxes.  Thank you SO much!   

2. Please make sure not to put your child's library book into his/her black book bag...library books go into the basket on the cubbies.

3. There is no school on Wednesday, 11/11, in honor of Veteran's Day.

Our Week: Theme: Attitude of Gratitude

Star Student: Noelle.  We look forward to seeing your poster and learning more about you.

11/2 Monday- Psychomotor (9:20-10:00) , Snack: Noelle

11/3 Tuesday- Mrs. Vazquez is teaching today, Incoming Kinder Parent Tour (10:45), Music (11:00-11:30), Snack:Ruth

11/4 Wednesday- Homework Packet Due, Library Book Due,  Black Book Bag Due, Snack: Richard

11/5 Thursday- Family Day (10:45-11:25), Snack: Shane

11/6 Friday- Mrs. Niehaus subs today, library (9:00-9:30), Computer Lab (10:45-11:25), Snack: Shea

What We're Learning

• Math: A fun game that we have been practicing at school is "War" with a deck of cards (face cards removed).  Play this at home to help your child practice number ID, and concepts such as: more than, less than, equal to.  We continue to practice ID 2D & 3D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, hexagon, sphere, cylinder, cube, cone), ID colors, days of the week,  patterns, days in school/beginning place value. We are practicing sorting by color, shape, and size, counting 0-5 objects, writing numbers 0-5, counting to 30, counting by 10's, counting by 5's.

• Language Arts: 
• Sight Words: Your child should be able to read, write, and spell the following sight words that we have studied over the past few weeks: a, the, I, see, my, go, to, like, can, look. This week's sight word is 'you'. Please practice reading and spelling these sight words at home as well as writing them in sentences!  
• Writers Workshop: We are working hard on sounding out words phonetically in our stories.  At this time, some children may only hear the beginning and ending sounds in words.  That is okay.  Please do not tell your child how to correctly spell the word.  Instead, encourage them to "say it like a snail, stretch it like a snake, write down the sounds you hear."  Your child may want to practice writing stories at home too...attach them to your homework for extra credit!  Writing is meant to be a fun activity so keep it positive!